So many Chinese expats have returned in the past few years that Valley-slang has given them a special name, B2C (back to China).

ECONOMIST: India and China are creating millions of entrepreneurs

Half a year later, Silverman struck back in an Esquire article, calling McPherson a "D-girl, " industry slang for an attractive, but powerless, junior female executive.

FORBES: The Battle Of The Network Chiefs

Sooner or later somebody, usually Charlie, gets around to saying or doing something embarrassingly pretentious, and all at once you remember the alchemic creativity with which the Odets of the 1930s turned working-class slang into poetry, and sigh at the thought of what the American stage lost when he turned his back on the world of "Golden Boy" and "Awake and Sing!"

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